#qi-hardware IRC log for Wednesday, 2014-02-12

dunno how it was sourced. certainly indirectly for the ben production but AVT2 and such may have gotten it directly from ingenic (or, if they went through a distributor then that was for convenience). wolfgang had direct contact to ingenic.

well, the main purposes of a bank are to a) safely store money, b) send it around, and c) facilitate lending. for a) you have your wallet, b) is kinda implicit in bitcoins, so that leaves only c) for a bank to do.

this kind of move is expected (to open a bank) as there is money to be made...and soon currency exchange will move a level up in terms of bitcoin trading and that is using assets...as at the moment bitcoin is not linked to any assets...once assets is attach to a bitcoin you will see the explosion of it worldwide

maybe you need to experiment with angle and light source. you can usually get very clear images even of stuff that seems unreadable. alas, the angle that works for one chip may not work for the next. but then, digital pictures are cheap ...

damn you, xkcd. just this morning the world was nice and normal. i sat in my office chair like the usual sack of wet potatoes and lazily surfed the internet. now my desk is full of plastic boxes propping up screens, keyboard, and mouse and i'm standing there, typing, feeling exceedingly alert all the while.